O'Toole wins!
The new party leader will be decided tonight. The contenders are:
Peter MacKay, Erin O'Toole, Lesyn Lewis and Derek Sloan.
Live coverage can be found at:
(Will add more as they pop up).
The show has started. Watch one of the above streams.
(Was delayed a couple of hours. Something about the vote-counting machine shredding ballots)
Update: 6:30pm
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Results delayed by an hour.
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Kory Teneyecke, Fmr Director of communications for Harper says the news coming out of the count room indicates things are looking good for Lewis and worrisome for MacKay.
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Scheer (when asked) says he's staying on board as an MP and will run in his riding next election.
Update: 7:30pm
- Delayed again until at least 8:00pm.
Update: 8:00pm
- Delayed until 9:00pm
Update: 9:40pm
- 98%+ of votes are counted, it's just the <2% that were damaged that are being hand counted. There will be a leader named tonight.
Update: 11:10pm
- Less than 100 ballots left to count.
As someone who voted PPC, I am hoping Lewis wins, with Sloan as a 2nd choice (he has no shot at winning). Why the hatred towards PPC voters? I'll be voting CPC in a snap election because PPC has basically collapsed as a party, Max revealing he took a salary is also shameful.
The CPCer's in this sub are still pissed at the PPCers for splitting off in the last election as if it had any effect on the election.
I'll be honest, I joined PPC but I didn't vote PPC.
I have no problem with Max taking a salary, Frank Vaughan has been angling for leadership since the last election and it's fucking up the party but the bigger problem was that there simply wasn't enough time in the last elections to run in every riding, it was too ambitious and the candidates fucking sucked for the most part.
I could count 10 that I would vote for if I'm being generous. The rest were fucking lunatics and worse, people who were running based on their diversity rather than the party message or god forbid the ones who were running based on quiet, simmering racism.
That and Maxime fucked up the debates.
PPC has a way forward, but they really need to separate the wheat from the chaff and smarten up.
At the end of the day, PPC didn't cost the CPC the election. Scheer running a dud of a campaign cost them. PPC at best screwed CPC about 5-6 seats.
And that's assuming the PPC votes were ex-CPC votes and not rightwing non-voters